Viber has users around the world. Now, with a new advertising campaign, they want to establish themselves in America.
Subway commuters in New York and Boston might notice something unusual in the coming weeks: Entire stations decked out in advertising for an app. Messaging service Viber, which has 664 million users worldwide, but still trails behind competitors in the United States, wants to crack the American market.
In Act Three of our series on making a movie: the long road to “action.”
Now that we had our script, a director, and $200,000 in investors’ money in the bank, we were ready to start filming. What our team lacked, however, was someone who actually knew how to make a movie. In other words, the equivalent to a chief operating officer: The right person to help us cinematic newbies scout locations, apply for the necessary permits and insurance coverage, organize equipment rental, rustle up a crew, hire a payroll company, find a casting director who was local and inexpensive, and attend to the thousands of other details that accompany any production.
It’s not the snazziest self-driving car you’ve ever seen, but it’s grounded in something more important: reality.
We’ve seen self-driving cars that allow your family to play a board game, and offices on wheels that can move board meetings to the highway. We’ve even seen Google’s vehicle that has no wheel, and one that will turn several cars into one long train. But what we’ve seen very little of—in the concept space, at least—is the inevitable: self-driving cars that look like plain old cars.
The attacks carried out by ISIS in Paris last Friday have revived conversations about access to encrypted smartphone data.
As a response to the horrific act of terrorism that killed more than 120 people in Paris last week, the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recommended that U.S. wiretapping laws be revised. Tom Wheeler, the current chairman of the FCC, told Congress on Tuesday that it could expand the meaning of “lawful intercept” and make wiretapping more comprehensive to aid law enforcement, according to the Washington Post.
Mouse gestures never made sense on PCs, but they’re awesome on Android.
Long before we started swiping and tapping on touch screens, mouse gestures were touted as the humanist way of interacting with our computers. Simple patterns you traced on screen by holding a mouse button in order to perform a shortcut, companies like Opera spent a lot of effort trying to make mouse gestures happen, but it never did, mostly because clicking a button or swiping on a trackpad is always going to be a quicker way to do something on a PC than memorizing and executing an obscure command glyph.
With new tools for nonprofits to solicit donations directly from your Newsfeed, Facebook wants to become the platform for giving.
Countless people already go to Facebook to talk about causes they support, and more than 150 million users are connected to one on the platform. Now users can put their money where their mouth is.
Karp is one of the hardest working people in entertainment. As his new web series, Baby Talk, launches, he talks about getting it all done.
Being ridiculously crazy-busy is exhausting. We all know this, it’s why vacations exist. But apparently, there’s a mythic level of high-functionality that only a select few tend to reach—one so intense, it’s exhausting to even witness. Take Jensen Karp, for instance. (Or try taking him, anyway; Jensen has so much going on right now, he’s not likely budging.)
New research finds that standing at work leads to more laziness elsewhere.
Standing desks at work have an unfortunate side effect: The more you stand at work, the more likely you are to slouch in a chair as soon as you get home.
Is anyone making headway on recruiting and retaining more women? Behind the scenes at the world’s largest conference for women in tech.
“This is the best room in the world!” Hilary Mason, the founder of data and machine learning R&D group Fast Forward Labs, yells enthusiastically as she walks on stage at the Anita Borg Institute’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women In Computing.
She’s facing a block of neatly lined chairs that stretches the length of more than a football field. Most of those chairs are full, and—remarkably, for a technology conference—most of their occupants (93% of the 12,000 attendees) are women.
Facebook’s VP of messaging on why the company split off Messenger into a self-contained experience—and what the future holds.
With 1.5 billion monthly active users, Facebook has proven that it knows how to scale up a web business at least as well as any other company on the planet. But its sheer overwhelming enormity has a tendency to set the bar incredibly high for anything else it does.
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